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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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